[LLVMdev] std::string

[Chris Lattner]

On Jan 19, 2013, at 7:04 PM, Krzysztof Parzyszek <kparzysz at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> On 1/19/2013 8:36 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:
>> 
>> See:
>> http://llvm.org/docs/ProgrammersManual.html#picking-the-right-data-structure-for-a-task
> 
> Were the "small n" characteristics the main motivation?

It is one of the motivations.

> Memory-wise, STL classes allow user-defined allocators, so use of things like memory pools should be relatively straightforward.  Just wondering...  :)

Yes, you get some of the benefits that way, but not all of it.

-Chris